Instead of Jurassic Park, try Pleistocene Park. A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The ...

Pompeii just moved north. The ancient Roman city, which was covered in ash after the sudden eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, now has competition from a buried town that has been unearthed in Norway.

A group of South Koreans have offered to sell six dinosaur-fossil skeletons back to Thailand for US$60 million or about Bt2.1 billion. The offer was made even though smuggling of the ancient skeletons out of the country is illegal. The fossils in ...

Tyrannosaurus rex was not only the most fearsome of all carnivorous dinosaurs, but also boasted the keenest sense of smell. The discovery that it had such a good nose suggests strongly that T. rex stalked and hunted its prey and was not solely a s...

CALGARY — A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle was officially introduced to the public Tueday, nine years after it was discovered. The turtle fossil and a nest of fossilized eggs were found in the badlands of southeastern Alberta in 1...

A squat beachball sized toad dubbed 'the frog from Hell' has been found in Madagascar, where it it once may have snacked on baby dinosaurs and other small animals. The 70 million year-old fossil frog is likened by researchers to a "slightly squash...

BEIJING - An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years has been unearthed in central China, state media reported Wednesday. The skull, consisting of 16 pieces, was dug up last month after two years of excavation at a site in ...